Obama Wants to Send 100,000 Students to China

Submitted by Doug Lederman on November 19, 2009 - 3:00am

China and the United States on Wednesday announced a series of steps to improve relations between the two countries. One part of the joint announcement[1] was the statement that the United States would seek to send 100,000 students to China over the coming four years. While the statement suggested that this would be an increase over 20,000 Americans who currently study there, the increase could really be larger. Data released this week by the Institute for International Education placed the number of Americans currently studying in China at 13,165.